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Senetta F. Bancroft – Science Education, 2025
A longstanding failure to achieve racial and ethnic equity in STEM doctoral programs in the United States exists alongside a research landscape struggling to comprehensively explain this enduring failure. Towards a comprehensive explanatory model of STEM doctoral persistence and disruption of this failure, I previously proposed critical capital…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Doctoral Students, Women Scientists, Academic Persistence
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Svetlana Masjutina; Elizabeth Stearns; Martha Cecilia Bottia – Science Education, 2025
Although many students exhibit interest and demonstrate academic preparedness in math and science, a significant proportion of students do not major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. These students encounter systemic barriers to STEM opportunities related to their intersecting gender and racial/ethnic identities.…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, STEM Education, Majors (Students), Course Selection (Students)
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Marco Reggiani; Jessica Dawn Gagnon; Rebecca Jane Lunn – Science Education, 2024
Barriers to equity, diversity, and inclusion remain in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) for historically underrepresented and marginalized individuals. The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of women and LGBT+ academics and PhD students in the United Kingdom. Specifically, this article examines systemic…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Inclusion, STEM Education, Barriers